Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Rep. Liz Cheney (R., Wyo.) is likely to become the next chair of the House Republican Conference after the current occupant, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R., Wash.), decided Thursday that she would not seek a fourth term in the position.

A Democrat running for Congress in Washington state’s fifth district said on the campaign trail that she worked in “opposition to U.S. policy in Central America” while she taught at the University of Central America.

A Washington Democratic congressional candidate praised a radical labor leader in a 2017 interview with a liberal group based in Spokane, after previously listing the same person as an inspiration in her 1986 doctoral thesis.

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, the highest-ranking female Republican in the House of Representatives, took to Twitter on Sunday to offer a fiery rebuke of the Washington Post and its deputy editorial page editor, Ruth Marcus, after she defended aborting children with Down syndrome.

The office of Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R., Wash.) says organizers of a local Women’s March backed out of an agreement to play a message she recorded after learning she was unable to attend due to the government shutdown, according to the local Spokesman-Review.